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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 24 March 2024 (awful.systems)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Feel like you want to sneer about something but you don't quite have a snappy post in you? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut'n'paste it into its own post, there’s no quota here and the bar really isn't that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

new might be a good global default for everything local to our instance, given the traffic patterns of our threads. unfortunately it might take some doing to make that the default just for local stuff, without making things janky for folks reading federated content

amazingly, lemmy doesn’t even seem to persist the last sort you’ve selected correctly. which is like easy 10 lines of code to do even in React with Typescript

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 14 points 9 months ago

given the traffic patterns of our threads

Highlighting the new posts since the last time you visited a thread would be amazing if possible.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Re: Lemmy, some dude (ofc) is trying to start a new "decentralized" Wikipedia, and he touts as a merit that he created Lemmy:

I have worked on Lemmy for the past four years, bringing it from a prototype to a fully functional Reddit alternative.

Some would say this is damning with faint praise, others would see it as a warning.

(https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,_the_federated_Wikipedia_Alternative@ibis.wiki)

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

party like it's 2007

now we know why lemmy dev is so slow

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

I can't wait to see what happens as these people slowly learn the consensus problem in this domain

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

These are only a few examples, journalist Helen Buyniski has collected much more information about the the rot in Wikipedia.

(quickly web-searches for that name)

Oh, she writes for Russia Today.

Authors and public figures in fields as diverse as Complementary and Alternative Medicine and progressive politics (including Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, Gary Null, John Pilger, and George Galloway) have complained of persistent negative coverage on Wikipedia despite the site’s vaunted neutrality and the promise that “Biographies of Living Persons” are held to the highest standard.

(snerk) Oh, no, Deepak Chopra and Rupert Sheldrake are upset. I can feel the quantum disruption in the morphogenetic field.

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 5 points 9 months ago

@blakestacey Oh dear, George Galloway complaining about negative coverage, how sad, much hardship. (Galloway is an utter shit.) John Pilger had credibility for a critique of US/western foreign policy, but the rest of the listed folks are just cranks.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago

now, you may have heard unfortunate rumours that the lemmy devs are a pair of tankies

this is of course shitlib lies spread by revisionists,

[–] earthquake@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been kind of following development of Sublinks, which hopes to reach parity with Lemmy with more typical web tech so development can go faster/with more contributors, and also so they can pivot to better moderation tools. Maybe it works out, maybe we learn to love the jank.

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

I’ve been following it too, and hoping it yields a fork with better development priorities (and, frankly, developers) than lemmy, though I’m not at all looking forward to dealing with deploying Java and Go to production